Old books on anal sex

I recently found a book on sex and relationsships from the 70s (Wake Up in Bed, Together!: A Handbook for Sexual Repatterning by Claude and Dorothy Nolte) which has a full chapter on anal sex. So I would like to know if there are similar books (sex- and marriage/partnership advice) from the 1970s (or 1960s or early 1980s) that deal with anal sex?

Don't know any other books like this, but thanks for the suggestion ! I've never heard of this book, but I just ordered a used copy on Amazon for $4 including postage!

Doc, I hope you bought it out of curiosity, not because you needed instruction on how to do it! 😁

Absolutely. There was an innocence to books like that that is missing I think from more recent material. I remember seeing "The Joy of Sex" when it first came out. (Yes, I'm that old.. )

Lol, I also collect old books..

Innocence?

Innocence?

Yes, like this was all new, and fun, and here's how this works so you can enjoy it too.. Without guilt or fear.

Absolutely. There was an innocence to books like that that is missing I think from more recent material. I remember seeing "The Joy of Sex" when it first came out. (Yes, I'm that old.. )

Lol, I also collect old books..

Every age and time has its own particular feel to it when it comes to publishing and books and illustrating. The 1970s were times when it became legal to publish what a decade previously would have been labeled pornography and get you possibly in jail or heavily fined. Some countries started earlier than others. I used to go across the border to the Netherlands and Amsterdam occasionally to buy sex mags and stuff. This while mags like Playboy were either banned or getting blacked out portions in Belgium.

But this also meant that publishers were still feeling their way around, careful not to run afoul of any laws re. obscenity, but still pushing the sexual envelope. The public clearly liked such publications judging from sales and the number of books published on the subject. Also, books like 'the Joy of Sex' used hand drawn illustrations, which is a good way to create a perfect looking body in the correct and appropriate poses.

In the Spring of 1962 while I was a freshman in college I remember the campus bookstore carrying a newly published paperback edition of a book called the 'Marriage Art." There was an entire section about anal sex which was extremely enlightening. The book was intended to be a very detailed "how to" manual for (heterosexual married) couples who wanted to go beyond the established norms of traditional marital sex. It was the dawn of the 60's after all. My copy was a great companion and inspiration when I had privacy and idle time on my hands, so to speak. It was also a handy reference when my first girl friend away from home turned out to be the embodiment of the happy combination of knowledge, experience and enormous sexual appetite.

I had the original Joy of Sex but it's long buried somewhere. Did it have anything useful/nonjudgmental to say about anal sex, anal toys or enemas, or was that too early in history to discuss that?

Dick

In joy of sex, based upon index findings, 4 paragraphs on anal sex. basically neutral presentation. Nothing on enemas in the index.

In the Spring of 1962 while I was a freshman in college I remember the campus bookstore carrying a newly published paperback edition of a book called the 'Marriage Art." There was an entire section about anal sex which was extremely enlightening.

Thank you. I didn't know this book before. I will try to get a copy of it. The author was John E. Eichenlaub MD and it was published first in 1961 or so.

There are several copies of Marriage Art available on abebooks.com (one less than there was a few minutes ago).

The Joy of Sex, original publication, briefly mentions anal sex with the admonition of, "Only going glans deep."

It tangentially covers oral sex as, "mouth music". And that saliva is a good lubricatant, best applied using one's lips. Admittedly Alex was constrained by the obcenity laws of the day.

In the 1960s I had a book I think titled A Marriage Manual. It was very circumspect and ultra vanilla. Such advice as buying a bed with a sturdy footboard to aid in pushing (?). It assumed the newly married couple were virgins and that they shouldn't wait beyond the third night to consummate the marriage. The tone, needless to say, was very sexist by today's standards. I loaned it to a girlfriend and it never was returned.

Still in print: https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Art-John-Eichenlaub/dp/B0007E1XUU